Omidyar network:
Chu, Michael.
Omidyar network: pioneering impact investment / [Case study] Michael Chu & Lauren Barley. - Revised: January 2, 2013. - Boston, MA : Harvard Business School, 2013. - 26 p. : ill. : 30 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 26).
Omidyar Network, having deployed over $500 million in ways ranging from donations to commercial equity capital, must decide whether to back Anudip, an Indian organization dedicated to rural employment. The social impact of Anudip is high, but its financial performance is lackluster. Able to deploy all the tools along the capital curve of impact investing, which, if any, is optimal for Anudip? The case recounts the transition of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam from the Omidyar Family Foundation (OFF) to ON, going from a traditional grant-making organization to a pioneer of impact investing: the application of investment practices in the delivery of high impact social interventions, with the intent of providing positive financial returns to investors.
9-313-090 Harvard Business School Case
Social Enterprise Investment Giving and Philanthropy India.
/ CS0037
Omidyar network: pioneering impact investment / [Case study] Michael Chu & Lauren Barley. - Revised: January 2, 2013. - Boston, MA : Harvard Business School, 2013. - 26 p. : ill. : 30 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 26).
Omidyar Network, having deployed over $500 million in ways ranging from donations to commercial equity capital, must decide whether to back Anudip, an Indian organization dedicated to rural employment. The social impact of Anudip is high, but its financial performance is lackluster. Able to deploy all the tools along the capital curve of impact investing, which, if any, is optimal for Anudip? The case recounts the transition of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam from the Omidyar Family Foundation (OFF) to ON, going from a traditional grant-making organization to a pioneer of impact investing: the application of investment practices in the delivery of high impact social interventions, with the intent of providing positive financial returns to investors.
9-313-090 Harvard Business School Case
Social Enterprise Investment Giving and Philanthropy India.
/ CS0037